# Popular Music of the Forties **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 2, 2008, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758 "2008-05-02T15:23:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Flipbustle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@Flipbustle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flipbustle)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758/1 "2008-05-02T15:23:31Z")
Does anybody remember all of the lyrics ? ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758/2 "2008-05-02T15:27:19Z")
Of which song? Every single one of them? ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758/3 "2008-05-02T15:45:40Z")
Except the Hut Sut song. You get a pass on that one. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758/4 "2008-05-02T15:46:42Z")
[QUOTE=Flipbustle] Does anybody remember all of the lyrics ? [/QUOTE] Not to Charlie Parker’s or Dizzy Gillespie’s instrumental be-bop songs, no… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758/5 "2008-05-02T17:06:33Z")
Here you go: [http://www.jumbojimbo.com/lyrics.php?songid=2646](http://www.jumbojimbo.com/lyrics.php?songid=2646) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758/6 "2008-05-02T18:44:51Z")
I seem to recall the memorable lyrics: “doodly-adda, doodly-adda, doot-doot-doot” (Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy), which have deep meaning for me. ---
**Author:** ![Flipbustle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@Flipbustle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flipbustle)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758/7 "2008-05-03T15:23:59Z")
HeeHee- I still gurgle on some of those moronic/rhythmic lyrics. No. Only the rest of that pesky “Music Makers” thing. I know the Hut sut- - - but I’m most interested as to WHY that particular Music Man song is un-findable. Thanks, Whomever. . .lets show off our great memory abilities. How about “SkyLark” ? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758/8 "2008-05-03T15:39:38Z")
Typing " \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ lyrics" into Google will get you the lyrics of a lot of popular songs, even many as old as the 40s (or _before!_ - should you ever want such an absurd thing.) It also doesn’t waste the mods’ time giving us copyright warnings, which often happens when complete lyrics are posted to the Dope. Whenever you wonder why _any_ piece of music is unavailable, think: lawyers. They’re about the last profit sector left in the music business. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758/9 "2008-05-03T15:51:05Z")
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove] Except the Hut Sut song. You get a pass on that one. [/QUOTE] Speaking of which, is there a digital recording of the version in the soundie available online? iTunes doesn’t have that version. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758/10 "2008-05-03T16:40:47Z")
I never could find one on Limewire, but, on the off-chance this turns into a Youtube display thread, here’s: [The Hut Sut Song](http://youtube.com/watch?v=7kKU1S0lWxo) and [Spike Jones,](http://youtube.com/watch?v=lvt4b_qwC_Q) THE stand-out in a musical era blaring with silly novelty songs My fave, [The Donkey Serenade](http://youtube.com/watch?v=31zIlPxsQkM) (stictly speaking, a 1937 song, but so what?) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758/11 "2008-05-03T17:10:33Z")
Thanks, **Slithy**. Unfortunately I don’t know how do download the audio from YouTube unto iTunes. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758/12 "2008-05-03T17:45:25Z")
“There’s a man that comes to our house, every single day. Papa comes home and the man goes away. Papa does the work and Mama gets the pay, And the man comes around when Papa goes away.” Do you mean like that? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758/13 "2008-05-03T18:16:32Z")
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove] [Spike Jones,](http://youtube.com/watch?v=lvt4b_qwC_Q) THE stand-out in a musical era blaring with silly novelty songs [/quote] [I Went To Your Wedding](http://youtube.com/watch?v=dnCAQ3Nq93c&feature=related) never failed to crack me up back in the day. It doesn’t seem so funny now, but I remember tears streaming down my face. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758/14 "2008-05-03T19:02:41Z")
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove] and [Spike Jones,](http://youtube.com/watch?v=lvt4b_qwC_Q) THE stand-out in a musical era blaring with silly novelty songs [/QUOTE] I love Spike Jones - but seriously, there are some highly non pc lyrics, but it was a time when PC wasnt even remotely a concideration - their WW2 version of Casey Jones [the bombadier not the engineer] is seriously non pc - and at one job I got in trouble for listening to it. _sigh_ I really wish they woud worry about something other than a 60+ year old song from a time when the viewpoints were different. My favorite is [Pal-yat-chee](http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=8092) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758/15 "2008-05-04T05:08:41Z")
[QUOTE=Flipbustle] Does anybody remember all of the lyrics ? [/QUOTE] Yes, somebody remembers all of the lyrics. Next question? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758/16 "2008-05-04T05:34:52Z")
Wow, weird. I’ve been listening to Ella Fitzgerald’s complete Songbooks (255 songs!) for the last couple days. Just played Skylark twice in a row like an hour ago. Was wondering, amazed, at the lyrics of these classics. Cole Porter still head and shoulders above the rest, but I’m a Johnny Mercer fan too. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758/17 "2008-05-04T08:27:41Z")
I’ve noticed a lot of the music from that era had very distinct harmonies. You hear a lot of them in Disney movies, for example. What’s the deal with that? Why don’t we hear that in the same way anymore, and how is it achieved? ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758/18 "2008-05-04T09:03:30Z")
The lyrics are kind of secondary in this song, but it is still an incredibly catchy tune from the '40s, with a great little animated video to go with it: [All The Cats Join In](http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZDxa24Bjw9c). Besides, you have to love a Disney-animated clip from 1946 full of teenagers [shagging](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collegiate_Shag) away. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Flipbustle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@Flipbustle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flipbustle)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758/19 "2008-05-04T16:20:33Z")
to Lissener, Bully go ! Where did you find that? I was about to reply to Chefguy (a cook?) he’s funny. Doug, on the other hand is a poser I hasten to reply. Been there, done that, and now looking for a Civil Music Court. Can’t b’leeve statute of limitations goes that far back, for a LYRIC. Who can still be alive to care ? Am in the process of a deep search elsewhere. Will keep you posted. I was in Rome in ‘58, when Modugno’s gorgeous ‘Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu" hit the top list. I brought the sheet music back to an Orchestra in the Sherry Netherlands hotel. He didn’t even glance at it. Back home in “Rainchester” NY, I gave it to our Club orchestra. Dear ol’ Syl Novelli did look and noodle a bit. Shortly later Ol’ Deeno botched the lyric translation, as do all Italian descendants, who cannot pronounce their beautiful tongue. They try to “fit” to Amurrican ?taste not only the words but the meaning. I only hope Modugno never heard it. Syl cornered me one evening and said -"If you ever come across another tune, - - - " and burst into tears. ---
**Author:** ![Flipbustle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@Flipbustle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flipbustle)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758/20 "2008-05-04T16:29:00Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] Of which song? Every single one of them? [/QUOTE] No, sorry, only The Music Makers. Am almost there, out in lyric-limbo. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/popular-music-of-the-forties/447758.md?page=2)